The Huron Expositor, 1984-01-04, Page 2fIit /Immo (fxpost
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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1984
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Spend sensibly
Seaforth merchants, thougksome didn't want to admit it,ohave enjoyed
improved sales during the Christmas season. Some local businesses say
sales were up as high as 30 per cent over last year. Toys, computers and
microwave ovens were the big sellers. •
Most merchants agree that people were freer with their money this year
and local banks say that the increased spending is an indication of more
confidence in the economy.
Although times seem to be looking up financially, we should remember
the soaring inflation and accompanying unemployment of the past ten
years; and proceed with caution. Too much spending, while it may keep
money in circulation, elan cause rising inflation rates and put consumers in
debt over their 'heads, as we've seen recently with many farmers and
homeowners suffering huge financial losses.
Many Canadians are still recovering from the blow they received from
the ,poor economy of the past decade. Others are beginning to rebuild.
Most signs point to a more prosperous economy in 1984 but like our
grandparents who lived through the Great Depression of the 1930's, we
will probably use more good sense handling our finances after living
through Some very lean years. - S.H.
Learn about nukes
Saturday night was th 1r ht for celebrating. For those who missed it,
1984 is here.
So far, 1984 has . = =n a great year, at least in Seaforth it has. There have
been no car bombings, no murders, rapes, or robberies. Even drivers were
wary of possible police spot checks and didn't get rip-roaring drunk. There
haven't been any fires or accidents in the area, yet.
As in 1983, the biggest news item this year will probably be the threat of.
nuclear war and anti -nuke protests.
A Japanese survivor of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings now
living in Toronto, recently spent 10 months in Japan documenting the
lingering effectS of the bombings. She's writinK a book on the subject
based on inleiviews with 76 vtims. `" „°` ".�'
During her research, Setsuko Thurlow found that many people who have
come to terms with their grief are now anti-nuclear activists. She is
encouraged by the renewed interest and campaign against nuclear
threat.
"That's why we're seeing this groundswell in the peace movement.
.People have no choice because they feel the danger is so close to them. I
think it's a healthy thing," she says.
Let's face it. Most people in Seaforth area aren't really that concerned
about nuclear war. We're not in a large centre, but maybe we should
become more informed and learn more about the nuclear threat so we can
at least say we were ready, or, we told you sow-
if it's healthy, let's do it.
-)IW.
Shoot first?
SEAFORTH SKIERS brought in the new,
year by participating in the first ever,
cross-country ski run. Most skiers spent
Sunday afternoon adjusting 19 the sport, and
some even fell. Eight-year-old Meagan
The wild west of the 1800s, although It wasn't that wild, was relived in
Sherbrooke, Quebec, when police barged into a motel room, shot one matt
dead. and wounded a second. it was almost like a rerun of the famed Dirty
Harry movies of the 1970s.
The main problem in the Sherbrooke shooting was that police didn't get
their man. They had snuffed out the life of a carpet layer, pumping eight
shots Into his body while he lay sleeping in his rented room.
Police were in fact gunning for men involved in a robbery the day -before
in which a Brink's guard was killed. Quebec provincial police who are
investigating the "shoot first, ask questions later" shooting, say as many
as 21 shots were fired into thelroom. The most amazing thing is that the
bullets were shot through the door. Police didn't knock, or even get violent
as in the movies and kick the door in.
Some of the bullets also strayed through walls into other rooms, but
fortunately nobody was hit. The motel owner said police never gave the
men a chance. He said the door to the room was removed by police, after
the shooting.
The most outrageous part of the story •is that two Sherbrooke detectives
have been suspended with pay, pending a coroner's inquest. Unbelievable
you say?
Just look closer to home. Two Tillsonburg police officers were
suspended with pay. The new police chief of that town demanded they be
reinstated because Tilisonburg couldn't afford to hire extra help and
continue paying two officers.
The two cases have nothing in common. Tillsonburg did the right thing.
.'Sherbrooke didn't. They should have fired the detectives and then asked
questions.
Fair is fair, Isn't it? - R.W.
Alkemade shows that going downhill Isn't as
easy as it looks. After she got her skits
untangled, she completed the eight kilo-
metre trail. (Wassink photos)
Life. is game , you can't play vvie p, .:!
I'm not one to stay up all hours of the
night (morning) and but lite many
Canadians. 1 said goodbye 1483, hello 1984
on Saturday night. i didn't spend Saturday
night working like 1 sometimes do. nor did 1
worry how a mother was groin to hold
birthday parties for her twins botp. one
before midnight. Dec_ 31 arid the second
after midnight. My spouse and d spent the
night playing the game of Life and enjoying
wine and cherry brandy. Boring you say.
Well it wasn't -so.
As in past years, we got together with five
other couples. most of whom we've known
since public school. We're a sociable bunch.
spendmg much time reminiscing about the
'good old days" and the not -so -good days.
Lastyear we hosted the New, Year's Eve
party This year. we went to a friend's
house_
Glass in hand, 10 of us sat down to a serious
game of Life. For those who haven't played
the game, here are some highlights is a
board game, (not bored), and you play with
(fake) money. Any game where money is
used, such as monopoly, is a fatorite of iuiue.
Sons@ and ViOWS@Wt@
by Ron Wczagth
In the game of Life. players start out in
tittle plastic cars. A dial is spun to show the
number of spaces to move. As each player
works their way around the board, they
make money, pay money, get married. have
childrenyaad earn a salary.
In my case, I gat married, didn't have
kids, and made a meagre 56.000 salary. My
counterparts had up to four kids and some
made as high as S20,000 (physician's
salary).
The game of Life is just like the real thing.
You can buy a house, pay fire, car and life
insurance and can play the stock market. Not
a gambler, i didn't buy shares and as a
result didn't make or lase as much money as
others. Something most people don't do in
real life is sue. Not so in the game of Life. If
a player lands on the right space, they can
sue for damages and in each case, receive
5100,000. (1 sued twice).
The best part about the game is watching
other players. Everybody is arguing and at
times, tt got to the point where it was hard to
hear oneself think. Usually the argument
was about paying off another player. With 10
players. the banker didn't know if he was
coming or going: which is nothing new in the
game of Life.
The . game was interrupted briefly (five
minutes) while we all scrambled into the
living room to watch the countdown
celebrating the coming of the new year.
Unlike other years. we only kissed our
spouses (the herpes scare must have scared
everyone) and rushed back to the kitchen
table to finish the game.
The game ends with players either being
destitute and broke or millionaire tycoons. 1
placed second. A person who shall remain
nameless, was the last to finish, but won the
game. (She's always beating me).
_Riming brought in 1984, we all returned to
our homes, planning our strategies for the
real thing, life in 1984.
January I in Seaforth was very quiet.
While many were still recovering on Sunday
from the night before. I was braving cold
temperatures and deep snow to photograph
the fist ever Seaforth cross-country ski dub
get-together. The event was scheduled for
1:00 p.m. and i was the first one on the
scene.
I drove up and down the Mill Road looking
for skiers and wondering if had thy dates
mixed up. Arriving back at the Van Egmortd
House. skiers were arriving to break in the
first day of 1984.
It was then that.I realized that life is a
game, but unlike the board game. you can't
play it over again. I resolved to enjoy each
day. bad or good weather, working late or
sleeping in. irate or satisfied readers.
because that's life.
"Playing; game isn't that trivial
Probably a few thousand shore Canadian
homes this Christmas welcomed into their
midst a ticking time bomb that will
eventually wreck friendships and lead to
mare business for the divorce lawyers.
That time bomb is a game called Trivial
Pursuit a game that has made some Toronto
inventers mi'll'ionaires and been one of the
seccess stories in a gloomy economy in the
"e last couple of years. Sadly though. this crass
commercial pursuit that has made these men
so wealthy has had a terrible human post_
You only have to play the game a couple of
times to see what it does to you. For
instance, first off you have to be very careful
whifyon play the game with. People who
have never had problems relating before,
who have had friendships dating back
decoder, can suddenly find they have
nothing in common as they try to answer the
burning question of who was Elvis Presley's
first barber. i mean you have some friends
over you've been happily able to converse
Got a beef?
Write a letter
to the editor
She
Surety it is ,fe to write more titan
one column . ,,.. the loss of a woman you
have Barad with for more than 37 years?
Well, rm not going to, I'm going to let
some others do it for me. The letters and
cards and donations to the scholarship fdnd
are still piling in from all over the -country.
and I'm going to pick a random few and let
them
Here's an old school friend: "1 remember
the countless times we walked toschool
" J..f..r.', both and then to WO
•• _ <.. I always loved "rte Ivy for
all her . She was a good
example r me. Mew (Farzow)Robb.
Sure, as I called her, loved rwpkg with
young ppeople. a
Hue's a wore from
Shakeon the West Cast, of at! , now Eltingc,
"Yon and Soxel veplayed'animportantrole
in ray fife. 'four 'kindness, generosity and
of Marlene med a world of
to bet, , by extension has
inftweneed the csw€se of both our
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with about the weather and the horrors of
the metric system and whether or not Pierre
Trudeau will quit befiue he dies of a
heart-attack doing a half -roll. double -loop on
a trampoline and you get out the game and
jun find out that they are completely
ignorant of all the important things in life.
Who wants to continue a friendship like
that?
Then there's the problems of the game
itself. or rather the way people choose to
play it. There's the Encyclopedia -brained
question esker who, before he even reads
the question says: "Ohhhh. if you don't get
this one( you're really stolid.' Of course.
nothing is better designed to make your
mined go instantly blank. A. slightly less
anti keable variation is the person who looks
at the question and says "Why don't I ever
get easy questions like this" and then reads
k out an4ypu feel like a dope when you can't
answer.
Then thereAS the problem of playing
partners. Advice here: never play with your
wife. It's one thing to lose a good friend for
the sake of the game. another to have to go
through a costly divorce. This is caused by
those questions where both partners are
stye of the answer. only they are sure of
different answers. A suggestion here is to
provide a soundproof room nearby outfitted
with boxing gloves.
Then there are those people at a larger
gathering who don't play themselves but
gli.ve ' everyone more of
SugaQ and zpOQ@
sfiawy
for permitting us to be married in your lovely
garden that autumn day 13 years ago.
"Sure was igent. sensitive
demanng honesty and logic argument
di
I remember her challenging the clarity of my
thought and the emotional foindati of of my
reasoning, compelling me to re-examine my
motives and my goals. Through all the
r _„ words, I always felt welcome."
's more, but that's the essence.
And she got along welwith older people as
well. My uncle, so til he -can scarcely write,
took time to write a note. He is 91. Freon her
father, also 91, wrote; his heart sore, and
called her "our dear, sweet, loving Ivi."
Mrs. B.A. DianiweR remembers the Hull
his and lay, being -noted fie their
r in thoseparts, in aning letter
the
fries. is BIS between
Les Taylor. from Florida, writes succinctly
and sincerely: "1 am truly sorry, BM." He
knows it He's been through it
I could go on and on. 811! Jury, an old
student, now a journalist, remembers a
summer day in our backyard, working on the
school yearbook. He still can't spell.
Friends have been calling me, *sting me
out for meals, trying to cheer me up.
lint i said i wasn't .going to write a
column. I give the last word to Ray Hughes.
my brother -ill -law. We married those beauti-
fal Hull girls. Ray's brief eulogy at the funeral
was eloquent and moving, better than i cotdd
have done. Here it is.
"I hive been asked to say awords
about ivy or Sure, as HIS called and by
which she is known to many of you. As her
brother-in-law, I have had the great good
fortune to be mach involved in her fife and
drift by now and then and offer helpful
suggestions. Most often, of course, the
answers are wrong and are delivered .just
When you have an answer just on the tip of
your tongue but promptly forget because of
the interruption. Invariably, of course, the
answer you've fun gotten now turns out to be
the right one.
The evil geniuses who invented the game
weren't content with just one version. They
wanted to play real havoc in society so they
added to their original general game.
specialized versions for spko N. entertain-
ment. and one for the baby boom generation
and even for the kids. No doubt more
versions will be on the way. Once they've got
us hooked, they want to get every nickel out
of our jeans.
I'd suggest another sidel'me for them: a
book of etiquette far playing Trivial Pursuit.
rd even suggest a title: How to Play and
Win Trivial Pursuit without getting your
Throat Slashed.
life
that of her family. i loved Ivy and I know she
laved me.
1 know ivy to be a warm, loving person.
Bill and Hugh and Kim were the centre of her
life and she loved them, mothered them,
tended for them, worried with and for them
and frequently scolded then. This same love
was gtveaunsparingly to other members of
the family — her father, her sister Iris, her
brother David, and there was still lots left
over for the rest of us.
`ivy was a passionate person — she loved
with a passion — cared with a passion — and
she livedwith a passion. To be with h er was
an event — a g
Special. Sure had a r i, for listening --for
focusing onyen —yon were for that moment,
the centre' of the wurld — important —
spia1. She cared.
"When with Ivy, a joke was somehow
funnier, music more beautiful. Colors more
vivid. life more exciting.
SEE LIFE/ ON PAGE TWO